Food poisoning that involves multiple etiologies is reported from developing as well developed nations.Among the microbial causes, Staphylococcus aureus a major pathogen of food can occur in sporadic and epidemic form. It may cause life-threatening infections children, elderly, immunocompromised persons. Staphylococcal responsible for 241,000 cases United States annually. A variety foods, such ...

BACKGROUND The underlying mechanism of atopic dermatitis (AD) exacerbated by Staphylococcus aureus has not been established. However, we demonstrated recently that the majority of S. aureus strains colonized in the skin of Korean AD patients carried genes encoding staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) and/or toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1). OBJECTIVE To clarify the role of staphylococcal s...

Method Dispersed nasal polyp cells (DNPCs) and dispersed uncinate tissue cells (DUTCs) were prepared from patients with CRS with and without nasal polyps, respectively. Cells were incubated with various concentrations of alpha-toxin or staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) and then the levels of IL-5, IL-13, IFN-gamma, IL-17A, and IL-10 in the cell supernatants were determined. The effect of block...

Studies of staphylococcal food poisoning have been made difficult by the lack of an easy, reliable method for demonstrating the presence of an enterotoxin, elaborated by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus (Micrococcus pyogenes). The commonly used laboratory animals (guinea pig, mouse, rabbit, rat) are rodents, which as a class lack the appropriate mechanism for vomiting. These animals, th...

We report that a peptide from the B chain of insulin, B(10-30), binds with high affinity to multiple class II proteins, including IAb,d,k, IEd,k, and DR1. The ability of B(10-30) to inhibit the binding of other peptide antigens to class II does not correlate with its affinity for class II. B(10-30) only weakly inhibits the binding of antigenic peptides. Conversely, peptides with high affinity f...

Two peptide bonds of staphylococcal enterotoxin C, were hydrolyzed concurrently at quite different rates during limited digestion with trypsin. A Lys-Val at about position 92 in the disulfide loop was the first bond cleaved, followed by a Lys-Asx at about position 57 on the NH2-terminal side of the loop. Preparations of singly cleaved material (enterotoxin C1-T1) contained about 93% of the clea...

It has been well established that bacterial superantigens lead to the induction and aggravation of chronic inflammatory skin diseases. We investigated the clinical significance of serum specific immunoglobulin E (lgE) to the staphylococcal superantigens staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA), staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), and toxic shock syndrome toxin (TSST)-1 in patients with chronic urtica...

Abstract Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) are essential in human and animal infection food poisoning. This study analyzed ten genes ( sek, sel, sem, sen, seo, sep, seq, ser, ses , set ) encoding new staphylococcal enterotoxin isolated from animals humans by multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In Yogyakarta, Indonesia, samples cases (174 isolates), cattle (5 goats isolates) resulted a tot...

OBJECTIVE To examine the frequency of allergic sensitization to staphylococcal superantigens in young children with mild to moderate atopic dermatitis (AD). STUDY DESIGN AD severity was assessed with objective Scoring AD. Serum IgE to staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) A, SEB, SEC, SED, and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 were measured with ImmunoCAP. Comparisons between mild AD and moderate AD wer...

Domiati cheese is the most popular type of white soft in Egypt. Staphylococcus aureus a common microorganism that can easily contaminate during processing and distribution. Enterotoxigenic S. strains produce staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) have been involved food poisoning outbreaks worldwide. The aim present study was to examine inhibitory effect yoghourt starter culture nickel oxide nanopart...